Simple Site Verify vs Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Relat

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

Simple Site Verify

by idowebwork

Health D54

Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Relat

by Shareaholic

Health C60

Active-install trajectory

Simple Site Verify Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Relat

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	Simple Site Verify	Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Relat
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	900–1K	10K–20K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	-10% ✓	-50%
Overall health	D · 54	C · 60 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	27/100	31/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	85/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.98★	4.35★ ✓
Reviews	1	1,052 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	67/100	80/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	2.0y ago	1.8y ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	148	996 ✓
Category	Analytics	Social

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

Simple Site Verify Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Relat

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.